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How often do you change your needles/lancets?
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<blockquote data-quote="jopar" data-source="post: 202222" data-attributes="member: 11712"><p>This is the advise I've recieved since being dx'd in 1989!</p><p></p><p>1989, While I was in hospital, it was single use, after I got home I was told to use reuse my syringes, I was also instructed to cut my BM test strips into 2 perferably 3!</p><p></p><p>I was also told to wripe the rubber bung of my insulin vial with surgical spirit/alcohol swap before drawing up my insulin, plus as swap the injection site before injecting..</p><p></p><p>About 1996 I was informed that I didn't need to swap my vials or my injection site just insure it was clean..</p><p></p><p>2007 I found myself preganat, put onto the bolus/regime given 2 insulin pens, told that I could leave my needles on the pens until I needed to change needles, guidence the same as my syringes..</p><p>sadly I misscarried, but kept on the new regime and had to buy my own needles, (£12 a box) </p><p></p><p>2008, January changing needles and injecting through cloths was disgused on the DAFNE course I attended, The advise given yes to same guidance on reusing needles, but adivised not to reuse more than 5 times... Injecting through cloths, it wasn't something they encouraged but if you were injecting through clean light cloth then shouldn't pose a lot of problems, but if you did injet through clothing to change the needle before the next injection!</p><p></p><p>Now it's not a case of failing to change habits, it's a bit of common sense about risk factors and the likelyhood of something might happen...</p><p></p><p>I am in more danger from getting an infection from a papercut, being prick by a rose bush thorn or the thistle while gardening.. Or the verious other minor cuts or abrasions that I recived then reusing a needle that started sterile and the only thing it's been in contact with is my skin and the securely covered...</p><p></p><p>If I have a contaminate on my skin that is going fester for several hours on my needle and cause problems on the following injection a fresh needle won't change a thing the problem already existed on my skin!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jopar, post: 202222, member: 11712"] This is the advise I've recieved since being dx'd in 1989! 1989, While I was in hospital, it was single use, after I got home I was told to use reuse my syringes, I was also instructed to cut my BM test strips into 2 perferably 3! I was also told to wripe the rubber bung of my insulin vial with surgical spirit/alcohol swap before drawing up my insulin, plus as swap the injection site before injecting.. About 1996 I was informed that I didn't need to swap my vials or my injection site just insure it was clean.. 2007 I found myself preganat, put onto the bolus/regime given 2 insulin pens, told that I could leave my needles on the pens until I needed to change needles, guidence the same as my syringes.. sadly I misscarried, but kept on the new regime and had to buy my own needles, (£12 a box) 2008, January changing needles and injecting through cloths was disgused on the DAFNE course I attended, The advise given yes to same guidance on reusing needles, but adivised not to reuse more than 5 times... Injecting through cloths, it wasn't something they encouraged but if you were injecting through clean light cloth then shouldn't pose a lot of problems, but if you did injet through clothing to change the needle before the next injection! Now it's not a case of failing to change habits, it's a bit of common sense about risk factors and the likelyhood of something might happen... I am in more danger from getting an infection from a papercut, being prick by a rose bush thorn or the thistle while gardening.. Or the verious other minor cuts or abrasions that I recived then reusing a needle that started sterile and the only thing it's been in contact with is my skin and the securely covered... If I have a contaminate on my skin that is going fester for several hours on my needle and cause problems on the following injection a fresh needle won't change a thing the problem already existed on my skin! [/QUOTE]
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